sb. and a. Obs. Forms: 7 tarpailian, -paulian, -pollian, 8 -polian, -pawlian. [from next, after adjs, and sbs. in -ian.] a. sb. = next, 2. b. adj. = next, 3 b.
a. 1656. Ussher, Ann., vi. (1658), 124. The number of horse-boyes, and foot-boyes, and of hangers-on, and the tarpailians in the corn-ships,… he thinks to be greater … than that of the souldiers came unto.
c. 1660. W. G., Ode to Gresham College, in Weld, Hist. Roy. Soc. (1848), I. 80. Every Tarpaulian shall then with ease Saile any ship to the Antipodes.
1673. Hickeringill, Greg. F. Greyb., 140. Shall not your pilot, holla, whoop? And rowze Tarpollians that lye sleeping.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills, II. 60. Hear the noise of the Tarpawlian Boys; Port, Port, Port.
